Julian Bond remembered as civil rights champion


              En esta imagen de archivo del 8 de julio de 2007, el entonces presidente de NAACP Julian Bond en una intervención en la convención anual de la organización de derechos civiles en Detroit. Bond, activista de derechos civiles y expresidente de NAACP, murió el sábado 15 de agosto de 2015. (AP Foto/Paul Sancya, File)
En esta imagen de archivo del 8 de julio de 2007, el entonces presidente de NAACP Julian Bond en una intervención en la convención anual de la organización de derechos civiles en Detroit. Bond, activista de derechos civiles y expresidente de NAACP, murió el sábado 15 de agosto de 2015. (AP Foto/Paul Sancya, File)

ATLANTA (AP) - Reaction to the death of civil rights activist Julian Bond:

"Julian Bond helped change this country for the better. And what better way to be remembered than that."

- President Barack Obama

"The City of Atlanta is in mourning today. We have lost one of our heroes."

- Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed

"I think his legacy is going to be that he was a lifetime struggler. He started when he was about 17 and he went to 75 and I don't know a single time when he was not involved in some phase of the civil rights movement."

- Former Ambassador Andrew Young

"I don't know if you can possibly measure his imprint. It's extraordinary. It stretches his entire career and life in so many ways."

- Doug Jones, former U.S. attorney in Birmingham

"The arc of service of Chairman Emeritus Julian Bond's life extends high and wide over America's social justice landscape... This is a moment of incalculable loss in a trying hour of innumerable civil right challenges."

- NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks

"From his days as a young activist to his years as both an elder statesman and NAACP Chairman Emeritus, Julian Bond inspired a generation of civil rights leaders,"

- NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock

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